Extra Credit.

Before taking RTF 305, I have never used a blog or even thought about using one. I found one aspect in particular very positive: the blogs helped me gain a better understanding of the topics, concepts, ideas covered during the week. Probably the most difficult thing I encountered was the technical aspect of maintaining a blog. I am not a very high-tech kind of person and at the beginning I did have some trouble with the layout of my blog. The blogs in which we would have to talk about movies or television shows that we were familiar with and relate them with the blog topic for that week were probably my favorite because they were easy to write about. I was so familiar with what I was talking about that it made it easier to relate to the blog topic. For example, the one week in which we had to describe the basic Hollywood structure about a movie we are familiar with was very fun to do. In future courses, I would recommend the usage of blogs because they are an easy and efficient way of learning. Also, they are very unique and different from the usual assignments given in other classes. One thing I would improve is not so much the blog itself, but how we attained the blog topics. It was very frustrating for me and other people to get e-mails Saturday telling us about the blog due the next day. I would say to be prompt and have a specific time and date for when the students receive the blog assignment for the week.

Yes, you can use my blog in a paper or report.